If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?