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.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.