He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.