It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Who loses a day loses life.