Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!