What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.