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.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.