When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Resolve and thou art free.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.