Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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.
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.