I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

Actions lie louder than words.

Every dogma must have its day.

Society's the mother of convention.

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

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.