“Libraries are not made, they grow”

“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience”

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below”

“A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul”

“Life is not an exact science, it is an art”