If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

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

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Merely to exist is not enough.