The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.