Nothing recalls the past like music.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.