Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.