greater its
effect.--_Goethe._

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired
eyes.--_Tennyson._

Melodies die out like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and
listen for them.--_George Eliot._

Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with
unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret
art.--_Addison._

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible
world; one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is
destined one day to sound.--_Mazzini._

N.

~Naivete.~--Naivete is the language of pure genius and of discerning
simplicity. It is the most simple picture of a refined and ingenious
idea; a masterpiece of art in him in whom it is not
natural.--_Mendelssohn._

~Name.~--A virtuous name is the precious only good for which queens and
peasants' wives must contest together.--_Schiller._

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and
which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting
garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one
cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.--_Goethe._

~Napoleon.~--Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were
thrones.--_Byron._

Napoleon I. might have been the Washington of France; he preferred to be
another Attila,--a question of taste.--_F. A. Durivage._

~Nature.~--Nature has no mind; every man who addresses her is compelled to
force upon her for a moment the loan of his own mind. And if she answers
a question which his own mind puts to her, it is only by such a reply as
his own mind teaches to her parrot-like lips. And as every man has a
different mind, so every man gets a different answer.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Nature will be buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion or
temptation: like as it was with AEsop's damsel, turned from a cat to a
woman, who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran before
her.--_Bacon._

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the
laws of nature.--_De Finod._

Nature,--a thing which science and art never appear to see with the same
eyes. If to an artist Nature has a soul, why, so has a steam-engine. Art
gifts with soul all matter that it contemplates; science turns all that
is already gifted with soul into matter.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in
_everywhere_.--_Eme