It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.