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

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.