"To live without composing is to live without joy."

"I always have a new idea, a new melody, a new harmony in my head."

"Ah how could I possibly admit such an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others[?]"

"Pity that I am not master of all the world, as I am of my heart!"

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."