What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

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 one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.