“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

“Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope...”