“I love a tree more than a man.”

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

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”

“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.”

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”

“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”