The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
One has no friend who has many friends.
Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.