To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.