Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.