I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.