Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.
Music and letters are the two wings of the same spirit.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.