Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.