Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

Every man at three years old is half his height

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.