Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist