Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work.
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
O youth. . . . . . . be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand. . . . . . Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working. . . . . Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.