Without music, life would be a mistake.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit — and forces us to be strong ...

We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.

"Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" — that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.