It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love