Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

The easiest way of life is the best.