It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.