Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever