All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.