You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

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.