'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?