I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. Read Summary
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts. Read Summary
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Read Summary
How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so. Read Summary
An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life. Read Summary
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please. Read Summary
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock. Read Summary
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Read Summary
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end. Read Summary
Believe me, I do not like idleness but work. Read Summary
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart. Read Summary
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Read Summary
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. Read Summary
As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest. Read Summary
My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here. Read Summary
When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples. Read Summary
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. Read Summary
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician. Read Summary
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Read Summary
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives. Read Summary