"A great composition to me is ... an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence."

“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.”