Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?