To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime