There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.