My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.