In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.