The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.