Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

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

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

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