musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Of two evils choose the prettier.