It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

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

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

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.