A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.