With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.