Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.