An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

-Bach,Johann Sebastian
His definition of music. Quoted in Derek Watson Music Quotations (1991).

The immortal god of harmony.

-Behn, Aphra ne¤  e  Amis
Of Bach. Letter to Christoph Breitkopf.

  Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

What judgement I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as theyare, come crowding in so fast uponme, that myonlydifficulty isto choose or reject; to run them into verse or give them the other harmony of prose.

-Dryden,John
  Fables  Ancient and Modern, preface.

   The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on the Spring, l.5^7.

Concordia discors. Harmony in discord.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Epistulae, bk.1, no.12, l.7.

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Chapter on Ears'.

Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling; She knew such harmonyalone Could hold all heaven and earth in happier unio'  n.

-Milton,John
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza10.

Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to th'angelic symphony.

-Milton,John
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza13.

   Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony or true delight?

-Milton,John
   Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.383^4.

How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.235^6.

Nowadays harmony comes almost as a shock.

-Raine, KathleenJessie
Letter to Arthur Bliss.

Harmony! Harmony!

-Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter
  Attributed last words.

The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is pastöthere is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. Wherethere isdespair, may we bring hope. See St Francis 334:98.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  Said on entering No.10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister; 4 May. A misquotation of St Francis of Assisi.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know onlya few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, byany confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but reallyconcurring, laws, which Thoreau we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'The Pond inWinter'.

Now, in this blank of things, a harmony, Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal That grief for which the senses still supply Fresh food.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Calm is all nature as a resting wheel',1.7^10. Published in the Morning Post,13 Feb.1802.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.1, l.340^4 (published1850).

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Has blotted out man's image and his cry.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'The Sorrow of Love', stanza1. Collected inThe Rose (1893).