Music causes us to think eloquently.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.