It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.