You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.