Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.