Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.