To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

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

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

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.