Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.