Who understands much, forgives much.
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Love is the symbol of eternity.
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.
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.