Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Life is moral responsibility.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.