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.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.