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.

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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.