It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.