The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.