Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.