It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.