“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable
“A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized
“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.