Every advantage has its tax.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Music and Wine are one.