Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.