Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

An angry person is always full of poison.