What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.