Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,-emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to i…

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.