"The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves."

"What is difficult is also beautiful."

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"Never break the silence if it is not to improve upon it."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."