Nothing recalls the past like music.

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.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Greed is the prison of poverty.

Damn, ' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

One stupid act of some stupid extremist puts us all down.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.