Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

Life is moral responsibility.