We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
Play always as if in the presence of a master.
"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.