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

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.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.