To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.