Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.
The difference breeds hatred.
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.