Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.