One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.