The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
The world remains ever the same.
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Experience is only half of experience.
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.