The essence of love is kindness.
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
Circumstances alter cases.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.