The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.