I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all- Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever Thine Ever Mine Ever Yours

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.