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.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.