And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
Colors are light's suffering and joy.
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
An unused life is an early death.
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.
Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.