Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.