I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.