In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.