If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.