The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

Truth is a great flirt.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.