No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.