"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!"

"Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher."

"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beauti…"

"Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I…"

"I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning. And be gla…"

"No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me. How blissful it will it …"

"Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to …"

"My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any…"

"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity t…"