A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

"I see black light (his last words)"

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."