Why does God endow us with compassion?
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?