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

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe