The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
No man can help another without helping himself.
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.