Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

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