Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.