Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Method will teach you to win time.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.