A Man Can Be Himself Only So

Ignorance Is Degrading Only When Found In Company With Great Riches.

Hatred Is An Affair Of The Heart; Contempt That Of The Head.

This Is The Case With Many Learned Persons; They Have Read Themselves Stupid.

The Composer Reveals The Innermost Nature Of The World, And Expresses The Profoundest Wisdom In A Language That His Reasoning Faculty Does Not Understand, Just As A Magnetic Somnambulist Gives Information About Things Of Which She Has No Conception When She Is Awake. Therefore In The Composer, More Than In Any Other Artist, The Man Is Entirely Separate And Distinct From The Artist.

The First Rule For A Good Style Is To Have Something To Say; In Fact, This In Itself Is Almost Enough.