The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

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

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.