Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.