The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Music is what feelings sound like.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.