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

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

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

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.