There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
