Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.