“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”

“Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.”

“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

“Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.”

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.”

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”

“What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!”