To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
No one can resist an idea whose time has come.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent.
