You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

A useless life is an early death.

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.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).