I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.