Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.