“I shall seize fate by the throat.”

“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”

“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”

“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

“I love a tree more than a man.”

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”