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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
I call architecture frozen music.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.