The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them. |
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. |
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. |
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry |
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. |
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it. |
The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand. |
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. |
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. |
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions |
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. |
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood |
The scavenger of misery is pity. |
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. |