Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.