Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Cavil you may, but never criticise.