Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.