No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

See deep enough, and you see musically.