Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.