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.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

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

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.