“Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.” SaidIdeasClassTasteSafeDancingSakeInnocentPityAmusementRiotGreat ChangeDebauchery Book:Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews Source: Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews
“Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a source of happiness and a cheerfulness to me during life and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.” WorldShouldBookMightWould BeReadingSourcePrayingCircumstancesTasteVarietyReading BooksShieldsCheerfulnessSource Of Happiness Book:Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews Source: Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews
“A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.” MindSciencePrinciplesCasesSourceHabitTastePureExcitingContemplationEnquiry Author:John Herschel
