Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger