It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.