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

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.