Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

I love you. Good-by--because I love you.

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.