It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.