What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

find your eternity in each moment

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.