Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.