I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.