I Write [music] As A Sow Piddles.

People Err Who Think My Art Comes Easily To Me. I Assure You, Dear Friend, Nobody Has Devoted So Much Time And Thought To Compositions As I. There Is Not A Famous Master Whose Music I Have Not Industriously Studied Through Many Times.

Handel Understands Effect Better Than Any Of Us -- When He Chooses, He Strikes Like A Thunderbolt.

She's Only Pretty In That She Has Two Small Black Eyes And A Good Figure.

My Great Grandfather Used To Say To His Wife, My Great-grandmother, Who In Turn Told Her Daughter, My Grandmother, Who Repeated It To Her Daughter, My Mother, Who Used To Remind Her Daughter, My Own Sister, That To Talk Well And Eloquently Was A Very Great Art, But That An Equally Great One Was To Know The Right Moment To Stop.

Directly After God In Heaven Comes A Papa.