The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature