Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.