A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

To be a champion you must live like one.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.