Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

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.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

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

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.