As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.