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

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

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

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.