Motives are causes experienced from within.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.