Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

One must be something to be able to do something.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.