Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

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

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.