It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.