Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

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

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Prose talks and poetry sings.