Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

Music is the fragrance of the universe.