What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.