Beware Of Wishing For Anything In Youth,

For A Man To Achieve All That Is Demanded Of Him He Must Regard Himself As Greater Than He Is.

Music, In The Best Sense, Does Not Require Novelty; Nay, The Older It Is, And The More We Are Accustomed To It, The Greater Its Effect.

The Little That Is Completed, Vanishes From The Sight Of One Who Looks Forward To What Is Still To Do.

Whatever We Think Out, Whatever We Take In Hand To Do, Should Be Perfectly And Finally Finished, That The World, If It Must Alter, Will Only Have To Spoil It; We Have Then Nothing To Do But Unite The Severed, To Recollect And Restore The Dismembered.

It Is The Strange Fate Of Man, That Even In The Greatest Of Evils The Fear Of The Worst Continues To Haunt Him.