In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .