If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.