Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
I walk the world in wonder.
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.