Dare to be honest and fear no labor. . . . Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.