The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Life alone can rekindle life.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.