The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?