Quotes

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Certain thoughts are prayers. They are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost--that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization--is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

[on bravery] Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

[on the future] There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

To die is nothing. Not to live is frightful.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

A writer is a World trapped inside a person.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of, Education.

The Devil may visit us, but God lives here.

The Paradise of the Rich is made from the Hell of the Poor.

Music is noise that thinks.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Social Prosperity means Man Happy, the citizen free, the Nation great.