All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.