Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.