By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. And 'tis manifest, that as the rational soul …

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mighti…