A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?