Pain And Death Are Part Of Life.

The Romantic Embrace Can Only Be Compared With Music And With Prayer.

Einstein Is Notmerely An Artist In His Moments Of Leisure And Play, As A Great Statesman May Play Golf Or A Great Soldier Grow Orchids. He Retains The Same Attitude In The Whole Of His Work. He Traces Science To Its Roots In Emotion, Which Is Exactly Where Art Is Also Rooted.

Every Man Of Genius Sees The World At A Different Angle From His Fellows, And There Is His Tragedy.

There Is Held To Be No Surer Test Of Civilization Than The Increase Per Head Of The Consumption Of Alcohol And Tobacco. Yet Alcohol And Tobacco Are Recognizable Poisons, So That Their Consumption Has Only To Be Carried Far Enough To Destroy Civilization Altogether.

I Always Seem To Have A Vague Feeling That He Is A Satan Among Musicians, A Fallen Angel In The Darkness Who Is Perpetually Seeking To Fight His Way Back To Happiness.