A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

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