The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

The best path through life is the highway.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.