applying to him was a scamp (Lump), but took no proceedings
against him.)

149. "Very well; then I shall earn nothing more, go hungry and
the devil a bit will I care!"

(Mozart's answer to Hofmeister, the Leipsic publisher, who had
said: "Write in a more popular style or I can neither print nor
pay for anything of yours.")



STRIVINGS AND LABORS



150. "We live in this world only that we may go onward without
ceasing, a peculiar help in this direction being that one
enlightens the other by communicating his ideas; in the sciences
and fine arts there is always more to learn."

(Salzburg, September 7, 1776, to Padre Martini of Bologna, whose
opinion he asks concerning a motet which the Archbishop of
Salzburg had faulted.)

151. "I am just now reading 'Telemachus;' I am in the second
part."

(Bologna, September 8, 1770, to his mother and sister.)