Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

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.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.