Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.