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.

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

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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?