After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Music is the perfect type of art.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

I can resist everything except temptation.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.