Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.