In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of mans education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper