Everything Is Self-evident.

Everybody Thinks Himself So Well Supplied With Common Sense That Even Those Most Difficult To Please. . . Never Desire More Of It Than They Already Have.

The Object Of Music Is A Sound. The End; To Delight, And Move Various Affections In Us.

Now Therefore, That My Mind Is Free From All Cares, And That I Have Obtained For Myself Assured Leisure In Peaceful Solitude, I Shall Apply Myself Seriously And Freely To The General Destruction Of All My Former Opinions.

We Never Understand A Thing So Well,and Make It Our Own, As When We Have Discovered It For Ourselves.

I Hope That Posterity Will Judge Me Kindly, Not Only As To The Things Which I Have Explained, But Also To Those Which I Have Intentionally Omitted So As To Leave To Others The Pleasure Of Discovery.