The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.