Recommend To Your Children To Be Virtuous,

One Must Not Hold One's Self So Divine As To Be Unwilling Occasionally To Make Improvements In One's Creations.

I Will Seize Fate By The Throat; It Shall Certainly Never Wholly Overcome Me.

From The Glow Of Enthusiasm I Let The Melody Escape.

I Would Rather Write 10,000 Notes Than A Single Letter Of The Alphabet.

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.