The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?