Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

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

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.