I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

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

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.