Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.