“The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.”

“Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.”

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

“But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.”

“Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.”

“Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.”

“The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especially of those who make music their main object and study.”

“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.”

“We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”

“The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.”