Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.