When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.