Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.
Mozart is the musical Christ.
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.