Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors