There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.