People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

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

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.