From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

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

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

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

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.