There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.