Cheer up, children, I am all right.

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

I would give my best quartet for a good razor.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition.