It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.