A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
A person's fate is their own temper.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.