The virtue in most request is conformity.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.