The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?