I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.