"The Times are the masquerade of the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”

“What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.”

“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.”

“Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.”

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”

“We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.”

“The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.”