Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.