Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. - Heinrich Heine

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

I ought also here to speak of Jakob Bohme. For he too used the German language for philosophical treatises, and has gained high praise in this regard. But I have never yet been able to sit down and read him. I do not like to be made a fool of... Charles I was so impressed by this theosophical cobbler that he sent a scholar specially to Gorlitz to study him. This scholar was more fortunate than his royal master. For while the latter lost his head at Whitehall by Cromwell's axe, at Gorlitz the former, thanks to Jakob Bohme's theosophy, only lost his wits.

They loved each other, but neither
Would venture to speak thereof;
They glared at each other like enemies
And wanted to die of love.