Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.