For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.