Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.