The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

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.