Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.