Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

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.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

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.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.