Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Morality does not depend on religion.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.