What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.