Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.