His characters haunted him day and night.
"Herr Capellmeister, I should like to compose something; how shall I begin ?" asked a youth of twelve who had played with great skill on the piano.

"Pooh, pooh," replied Mozart, "you must wait." "But you began when you were younger than I am," said the boy.

"Yes, so I did," said the great composer, "but I never asked anything about it.

When one has the spirit of a composer, he writes because he can't help it." Gladstone said that what is really desired is to light up the spirit that is within a boy.

In some sense and in some degree, in some effectual degree, there is in every boy the material of good work in the world; in every boy, not only in those who are brilliant, not only in those who are quick, but in those who are stolid, and even in those who are dull, or who seem to be dull.