Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.