Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

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.

All things are only transitory.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.