Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
I love a tree more than a man.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.