Books are embalmed minds.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

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

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.