"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

"Little drops of water,  little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean  and the pleasant land. So the little moments,  humble though they be, Make the mighty ages  of eternity."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres."

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."