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

“Good Morning, on July 7My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.Ever ThineEver MineEver Yours”

“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”

“Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.”

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

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”