Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!