Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.