It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.