He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.