Harmony is next to Godliness

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

A Composition on the Piano

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.