This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

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.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.