Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.