The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.