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.

I shall hear in heaven.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

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.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

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