And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.