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

Youth is everywhere in place.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

There is one mind common to all individual men