To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.