Is it the breath, merely, of the performer on a wind- instrument, or the skillful, supple fingers of the performer on a stringed i...nstrument which evoke those tones which lay upon us a spell of such power, and awaken that inexpressible feeling, akin to nothing else on earth--the sense of a distant spirit world, and of our own higher life in it? Is it not, rather, the mind, the soul, the heart, which merely employ those bodily organs to give forth into our external life what we feel in our inner depths?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our b...osoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very u...ncertain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-...day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruct...ion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is an inner world; and a spiritual faculty of discerning it with absolute clearness, nay, with the most minute and brilliant... distinctness. But it is part of our earthly lot that it is the outer world, in which we are encased, which is the lever that brings that spiritual faculty into play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a great mistake to suppose that clever, imaginative children ... should content themselves with the empty nonsense which is ...so often set before them under the name of Children's Tales. They want something much better; and it is surprising how much they see and appreciate which escapes a good, honest, well- informed papa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A taxidermist stuffed a bear with such brio that he cried aloud "I love it!" A passing goddess, imperfectly understanding, but wis...hing to be responsive, kindly brought the beast to life. It consumed the artisan forthwith. Moral: Say what you mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like... thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »