Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Talent works, genius creates.