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

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

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.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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