Life is too short to waste.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.