It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.