I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.