for she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through — the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form, - Honoré de Balzac

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.