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

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Some will always be above others.

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.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?