“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.”

“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”

“But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.”

“For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.”