A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.