Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.