In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. - Maurice Baring

Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it.

Here's the lily, here the rose
Her full chalice shall disclose;
Here's narcissus wet with dew,
Windflower and the violet blue.
Wear the garland I have made;
Crowned with it, put pride away;
For the wreath that blooms must fade;
Thou thyself must fade some day,
Rhodocleia.