The Heart's Hushed Secret In The Soft

English People ... Never Speak, Excepting In Cases Of Fire Or Murder, Unless They Are Introduced.

Knowledge Is Much Like Dust - It Sticks To One, One Does Not Know How.

Habit Is A Second Nature, And What Was At First Pleasure, Is Next Necessity.

Suicide And Antipathy To Fires In A Bedroom Seem To Be Among The National Characteristics. Perhaps The Same Moral Cause May Originate Both.

We Would Liken Music To Aladdin's Lamp — Worthless In Itself, Not So For The Spirits Which Obey Its Call. We Love It For The Buried Hopes, The Garnered Memories, The Tender Feelings, It Can Summon With A Touch.