There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.