Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!