One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

The universe without music would be madness.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.