Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.