Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

The living have never shown me how to live.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?