It is work which gives flavor to life.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.