Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.