Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
Henri Frederic AmielWar is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
Henri Frederic AmielSympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
Henri Frederic AmielEvery landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
Henri Frederic Amiel