“The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes of the past.”

Describing memory as an inward treasury of emotional experience · Prose fiction

• Love
• Memory

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”

Recognising that completion requires a distinct form of discipline and judgement · Journal or prose remark, as commonly attributed

• Art
• Time

“The human voice is the organ of the soul; the organs of the body are merely instruments.”

Linking speech with inner life and treating the body as its expressive instrument · Prose fiction

• Music
• Truth

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Encouraging compassion for hidden suffering and misunderstood reserve · Prose fiction

• Friendship
• Sorrow

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

Presenting music as a shared form of human expression beyond national boundaries · Prose travel writing

• Beauty
• Music