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.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

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

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