If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.