There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.