Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity...
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of...
If you would create something,you must be something.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, every...
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be ch...
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Each one sees what he carries in his heart.