Music is the melody whose text is the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer

For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets a sight of the right side, and during the second half, of the wrong. The wrong side is not so pretty as the right, but it is more instructive; it shows the way in which the threads have been worked together