 No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. |
| Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. |
| A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. |
| Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Topics: Age |
| There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. |
| The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. |
| Consult duty not events. |
| The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. |
| We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. |
| Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. |
| People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. |
| There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. |
| Great men always pay deference to greater. |
| In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. |
| Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. |
| Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. |
| An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. |
