There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.