There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Don't judge a book by its cover

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.