there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.