Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

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

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Children are what the mothers are.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.