(55 quotes found)
“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
Walter Savage Landor
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”
“I loved him not; and yet now he is gone / I feel I am alone.”
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess”
“The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional”
“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”
“Delay in justice is injustice”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
