A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.