Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.