Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
I know well that happiness is in little things.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.