Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.