Talent works, genius creates.

That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.