Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.