The Essence Of Beauty Is

Pray To God That He Might Create Is Us A Clean Heart And Renew A Right Spirit Within Us.

And Do You Agree With Me, That The First Condition Of An Artist Should Be To Bear Respect Toward What Is Great, And To Bow To It And Acknowledge It And Not Attempt To Extinguish Great Flames For The Sake Of Making His Own Rushlight Burn More Brightly?

I Dislike Nothing More Than Finding Fault With A Man's Nature Or Talent; It Only Depresses And Worries And Does No Good; One Cannot Add A Cubit To One's Stature, All Striving And Struggling Are Useless There, So One Has To Be Silent About It, And Let The Responsibility Rest With God.

I Know Perfectly Well That No Musician Can Make His Thoughts Or His Talents Different To What Heaven Has Made Them; But I Also Know That If Heaven Had Given Him Good Ones, He Must Also Be Able To Develop Them Properly.

And Here We Come To The Vital Distinction Between The Advocacy Of Temperance And The Advocacy Of Prohibition. Temperance And Self-control Are Convertible Terms. Prohibition, Or That Which It Implies, Is The Direct Negation Of The Term Self-control. In Order To Save The Small Percentage Of Men Who Are Too Weak To Resist Their Animal Desires, It Aims To Put Chains On Every Man, The Weak And The Strong Alike. And If This Is Proper In One Respect, Why Not In All Respects? Yet, What Would One Think Of A Proposition To Keep All Men Locked Up Because A Certain Number Have A Propensity To Steal?