It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
A friend's only gift is himself.
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.