Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . .

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;/ When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.

But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.