We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.