Nothing recalls the past like music.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

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.