Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.