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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Music is only love looking for words.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

The metaphor is a shorter simile, or rather a kind of magical coat, by which the same idea assumes a thousand different appearances.

A noble metaphor, when it is placed to an advantage, casts a kind of glory around it, and darts a luster through a whole sentence.

A noble metaphor, when it is placed to an advantage, casts a kind of glory around it, and darts a luster through a whole sentence.

Each man’s memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.

it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.