It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.