To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.

My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

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.

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

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

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.