Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
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.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.