A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.