I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.