Music is the language spoken by angels.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Music is the language spoken by angels.