Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.