Who understands much, forgives much.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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.