“All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.”

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what’s popular and don’t know what you are investing in.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.