The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.