If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.