There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.