I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.