No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

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

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.