Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.