This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

If you want to be happy, just be.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.