What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Beauty rests on necessities.