To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

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