All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them