Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.