Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!