Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.