“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.