We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.