The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

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.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.