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

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

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

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

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

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.