Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.