So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.