Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.