“Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.”

“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself”

“I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species”

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies ”

“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”