To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

A love that dies has never lived.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.