All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.