Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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.