Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Artists are always young.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

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