If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.