“Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”

“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”

“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!”

“Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.”

“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

“The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.”

“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”

“We talk on principle but we act on interest.”

“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”

“Delay of justice is injustice.”