“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.”
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
“…the violin — that most human of all instruments…”
“Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.”
“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”