If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.