Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.