The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

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

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

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

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.