Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.