For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.