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

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I would stand upon facts.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.