Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.