Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
