Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

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.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.