Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

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

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.