The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.