“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,

Resolve and thou art free.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.