Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.