I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.