And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.