Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.