Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

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

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

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.