Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.