Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

I shall seize fate by the throat.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.