To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.