The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.