If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
Make your best thoughts into action.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.
Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.
Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.
It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.