The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.