The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

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.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.