Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

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

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.