God First, Then Papa.

I Do Not Hear In My Imagination The Parts Successively, But I Hear Them Gleich Alles Zusammen - At The Same Time All Together.

My Fatherland Has Always The First Claim On Me.

A Bachelor, In My Opinion, Is Only Half Alive.

Nor Do I Hear In My Imagination The Parts Successively, But I Hear Them, As It Were, All At Once (gleich Dies Zusammen). What A Delight This Is I Cannot Tell ! All This Inventing, This Producing, Takes Place In A Pleasing Lively Dream.

I Choose Such Notes That Love One Another.