Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.