I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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.

Artists are always young.

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

Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

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