Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.