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

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

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