With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.