If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.