Music and Wine are one.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Common sense is as rare as genius.