To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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.