No one should be rich except those who understand it.

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.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

To create something you must be something.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.