All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.