love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
The living have never shown me how to live.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.