Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

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.

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.

Death is not the worst sorrow.