This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.