Genius, when young, is divine.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscie…

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. ~ Claudio Arrau

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.