Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.