One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.