Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.