It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.