The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.