Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.