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

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

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?