If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

We are our own aptest deceiver.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.