The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.