To Me The Highest Thing, After God,

Handel Is The Greatest Composer That Ever Lived... I Would Uncover My Head And Kneel Down On His Tomb.

I Change Many Things, Discard Others, And Try Again And Again Until I Am Satisfied; Then, In My Head, I Being To Elaborate The Work In Its Breadth, Its Narrowness, Its Height, Its Depth...i Hear And See The Image In Front Of Me From Every Angle As If It Had Been Cast And Only The Labour Of Writing It Down Remains.

Men Are Not Only Together When They Are With Each Other; Even The Distant And The Dead Live With Us.

Recommend To Your Children Virtue; That Alone Can Make Them Happy, Not Gold.

I Carry My Thoughts About Me For A Long Time, Often A Very Long Time, Before I Write Them Down; Meanwhile My Memory Is So Faithful That I Am Sure Never To Forget, Not Even In Years, A Theme That Has Once Occurred To Me.