Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Truth is a great flirt.