One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.