As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

Syllables govern the world.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.