Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

We die, because we live.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.