"Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu."

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“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”

“Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.”

“Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.”

“His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word "Wonderful," as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds , his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.”

“I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.”

“Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!”

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