There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.