A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

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

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.