“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”

“The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities”

“Where words fail, music speaks”

“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak”

“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves”