Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Work alone is noble.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.