You May Imitate, But Never Counterfeit.

Envy Is The Most Stupid Of Vices, For There Is No Single Advantage To Be Gained From It.

I Prefer Thought To Action, An Idea To A Transaction, Contemplation To Activity.

Love May Be Or It May Not, But Where It Is, It Ought To Reveal Itself In Its Immensity.

There Are Two Histories : Official History, Lying, And Then Secret History, Where You Find The Real Causes Of Events.

Music Is Of Two Kinds: One Petty, Poor, Second-rate, Never Varying, Its Base The Hundred Or So Phrasings Which All Musicians Understand, A Babbling Which Is More Or Less Pleasant, The Life That Most Composers Live.