Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

A life without music is an error.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.