Why is youth so short and age so long?
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
Great men always have dogs.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.