You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

The universe without music would be madness.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.