The motto of my patron saint, St. Francois de Paule, is
"Caritas!" I will remain faithful to this throughout my life!
If, by some mutilated quotations from my book on the Gipsies in Hungary, it has been sought to pick a quarrel with me, and to make what is called in French une querelle d'Allemand, I can in all good conscience affirm that I feel myself to be guiltless of any other misdeed than that of having feebly reproduced the argument of the kingdom of Jerusalem, set forth by Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes), and Cremieux, three Israelites of high degree.
Accept, Sir, etc.,
F. Liszt
February 6th, 1883
322. To Rich and Mason in Toronto
[From a rough copy in the possession of Herr O. A. Schulz, bookseller in Leipzig]
[1883]
Dear Sirs,
The Rich and Mason Grand Piano which you have so kindly sent me here is a pattern one. And as such will artists, judges, and the public recognise it.