Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.