"Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible."

“It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.”

“If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.”

“Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.”

“A cultured aromatist.”

“Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.”

“For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.”