Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.