Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

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

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.