Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.