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.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.