Ignorance is not an extension of time
Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.
I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
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.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.