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

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.