Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Experience is only half of experience.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.