Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

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

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce