The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.