When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Life without music is no life at all.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.