A man endures misfortune without complaint.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

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

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

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

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.