Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.