In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
