In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.