It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

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.

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

No friendship is an accident.

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.