To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

There are remedies for all things but death.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.