If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

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

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.