It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

It's time to lie down and be counted.