The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.