Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.