As A Rule People Don't Collect Books;

It Is Easier To Go Down A Hill Than Up, But The View Is From The Top.

Any Change, Even A Change For The Better, Is Always Accompanied By Drawbacks And Discomforts.

The Manner In Which One Single Ray Of Light, One Single Precious Hint, Will Clarify And Energize The Whole Mental Life Of Him Who Receives It, Is Among The Most Wonderful And Heavenly Of Intellectual Phenomena.

Every Scene, Even The Commonest, Is Wonderful, If Only One Can Detach Oneself, Casting Off All Memory Of Use And Custom, And Behold It (as It Were) For The First Time; In Its Right, Authentic Colors; Without Making Comparisons. Cherish And Burnish This Faculty Of Seeing Crudely, Simply, Artlessly, Ignorantly; Of Seeing Like A Baby Or A Lunatic, Who Lives Each Moment By Itself And Tarnishes By The Present No Remembrance Of The Past.

You Probably Think Of The Orchestra As A Heterogeneous Mass Of Instruments Producing A Confused Agreeable Mass Of Sound. You Do Not Listen For Details Because You Have Never Trained Your Ears To Listen To Details.