Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.