Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.