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

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

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Men must work, and women must weep.