Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
ever thine, ever mine, ever ours
Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.