Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.