What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.