Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.