Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

One real world is enough.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.