Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.