Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... Rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
