“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below”

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on ”

“Peace is the first thing the angels sang ”

“Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme ”

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs”