Handel’s jig in the ninth _Suite de Pieces_, in G minor, is very fine but
it is perhaps a little long. Probably Handel was in a hurry, for it
takes much more time to get a thing short than to leave it a little long.
Brevity is not only the soul of wit, but the soul of making oneself
agreeable and of getting on with people, and, indeed, of everything that
makes life worth living. So precious a thing, however, cannot be got
without more expense and trouble than most of us have the moral wealth to
lay out.