All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

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.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

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

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.