The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.