There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.