Who can do anything after Beethoven?
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.