Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.