We work and that is godlike.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.