This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.