Imagination is the mightiest despot.
The vain being is the really solitary being.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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 the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.