When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.