Love guards the heart from the abyss.

What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.