If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

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

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.