No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Love is easily killed.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.