The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.