Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.