Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
Music tells no truths.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.