Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.