Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.