No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.