What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Architecture is crystallized music.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.