You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.