There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Handel, to him I bow the knee.
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.