I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?