The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Better never than late.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.