"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"A courageous heart knows that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down."

"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."