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

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.