The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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.