Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.