To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.