“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ”

“He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions – such a man is a mere article of the worlds furniture – a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being – an echo, not a voice.”

“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”

“Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.”

“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”

“Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss, in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though it were a place of refuge. Terrible danger! For this abyss is within us; this gulf, open like the vast jaws of an infernal serpent bent on devouring us, is in the depth of our own being, and our liberty floats over this void, which is always seeking to swallow it up.”