Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.