Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.