love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has bee...