Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.