In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es