Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

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

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.