What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.