"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."

"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."

"It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen."

"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within usa€”it simply reveals what we are made of already."

"It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen."

"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

"Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"Best safety lies in fear."