Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

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

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.