The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

The aim of living is life itself.