Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.