The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I shall hear in heaven.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.