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.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

He who is resolute conquers grief.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.