Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.