The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. Goethe.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 40 Thales.
The most elevated sensation of music arises from a confused perception of ideal or visionary beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently perceivable to fire the imagination, but not clear enough to become an object of knowledge. James Usher.
The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not preach a gospel, but keep describing how it should and might be preached; to awaken the sacred fire of faith, as by a sacred contagion, is not their endeavour, but, at most, to describe how faith shows and acts, and scientifically distinguish true faith from false. Carlyle in 1831.
The most enthusiastic mystics were women. Jean Paul.
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. Schopenhauer.
The most finished man of the world is he who 45 is never irresolute and never in a hurry. Schopenhauer.
The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. J. M. Barrie.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. Goethe.
The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. Hazlitt.