Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.