True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.