I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.