I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.