[...] I, too, am anxious about Cosima's health. Everything about her is extraordinary, unusual. She needs freedom in the noblest sense of the word. She is at once childlike and profound—the laws of her being will lead her towards the sublime only. Moreover, no one but herself will ever help her! She belongs to a special world order which, through her, we must learn to understand. In future you will have more leisure and freedom to observe this, and find at her side your noble place. The thought of this is a comfort. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 592