Music causes us to think eloquently.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.