You talk of getting up concerts in low parts of London, of humanising ruffians by the influence of music.

Pshaw! humanise humanity at large by devotion to an artistic ideal; the other aim is paltry, imbecile, charlatan.' He tried to see her face; she rode on, holding it averted.
'Follow any one of these courses, and you will make of yourself a true woman.

By trying to be a bit of everything you become insignificant.
Napoleon the Great was a curse to mankind, but one thinks more of him than of Napoleon the Little, who wasn't quite sure whether to be a curse or a blessing.

There is a self in every one of us; the end of our life is to discern it, bring it out, make it actual.

You don't yet know your own self; you have not the courage to look into your heart and mind; you keep over your eyes the bandage of dogmas in which you only half believe.