The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.