Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.