To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.