Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.