Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

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.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning