I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.