Music is the shorthand of emotion.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.