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.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

What potent blood hath modest May.