Music is essentially useless, as is life

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.