Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.