Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
• Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
• 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.