We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .