Good music is very close to primitive language.

Some suggestions for you :

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

You have to make it happen.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.