A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.