Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.”

“the flute is the true magical rod that changes all it touches in the inward world; an enchanter's wand at which the secret depths of the soul open. The inward world is the true world," said Vult; "the moonlight that shines into our hearts.”

“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”

“Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.”

“Fine minds are seldom fine souls.”

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

“How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!”