One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

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.