A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.