“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Music“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Intelligence“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Music“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
Good“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
Medical“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Intelligence“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Death“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
Success“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Art“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Alone“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
Learning“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
Death“Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.”
History“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”
Great“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
Best“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
Great“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”
Anger“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Death“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
Death“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
Happiness“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Nature