Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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