Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake