There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

America is a young country with an old mentality.