What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.