Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.