Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
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.
After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.