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.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

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.

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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