Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.