Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Music and Wine are one.

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.