The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.

Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.

Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, Time is not. - Henry Jackson van Dyke,

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

He's tough . I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

May his body rest free from evil.

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.