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.

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

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

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

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.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.