Love is the symbol of eternity.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.