The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!