Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.