Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times