It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.