Music is the universal language of mankind.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!