Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.