The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.