Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.