A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.