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.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

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.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.