No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.