While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

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.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.