If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.