Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.