He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Choose to see the 'good' in a person rather than pondering over the 'bad'

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

The well heeded well heard.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

I don't like the way my hair looks, so we're going to do the whole show over.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!