Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.