He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

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.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.