1. “Perseverance is a great element of success.”
2. “In this world a man must be either be anvil or hammer.”
3. “Nothing is or can be accidental with god.”
4. “A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
5. “Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.”
6. “Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.”
7. “Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
8. “Silence and solitude, the soul’s best friends.”
9. “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun.”
10. “The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still with him.”
11. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
12. “Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
13. “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
14. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
15. “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
16. “The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
17. “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
18. “In the long run men hit only hat they aim at.”
19. “The nearer the dawn the darker the night.”
20. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
21. “Into each life some rain must fall.”
22. “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
23. “The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”
24. “The human voice is the organ of the soul.”
25. “All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
26. “Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.”
27. “The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
28. “If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”
29. “The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”
30. “The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
