Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Nothing recalls the past like music.
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!