"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

"Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry."