The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

We love because we love.