Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

Music, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Bulwer Lytton.

Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find. Waller.

Music stands in a much closer connection with 20 pure sensation than any of the other arts. Helmholtz.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Auerbach.

Music, when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order; and also when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. Ruskin.

Music will not cure the toothache. Pr.

Music wraps us in melancholy, and elevates in joy. James Usher.

Musik ist der Schlüssel vom weiblichen Herzen—Music 25 is the key to the female heart. Seume.

Musik ist die wahre allgemeine Menschensprache—Music is the true universal speech of mankind. C. J. Weber.