If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

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

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.

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.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.