"Prince Paul Troubetzkoy is one of the few geniuses of whom it is not only safe but necessary to speak in superlatives…"

"From time to time he [Leo Tolstoy] posed – a tiring obligation – for painters and sculptors: for Repin, Pasternak who…"

"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"

"Many people would say, 'So strict a way of would make life unbearable,' but after a time this strictness so changes t…"

"Charles and Theresa entertained many friends at ‘Woodlands’ including , , , Henry James, Thomas Croft, and members of…"

"As a composer, he enriched violin music by his numerous concertos and sonatas, and by a few dainty songs. However, it…"

"Comprehensive books are very useful in the hands of those whose minds are already formed ; but experience has taught …"

"Only the young men who sat under him could know his fascination as a teacher."

"I never found humanity, in the human instruments around me, so hopelessly wicked, so unworthy of consideration, or so…"

"[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history …"