The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

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.