A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.